Showing posts with label 1917. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1917. Show all posts

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Wigs


As with many group photos the clowns show up in the back row. Here they are sporting a number of wigs.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Don't Give Up the Ship Boys

A mule drawn parade float. This was constructed by a machine gun company at Camp Cody, New Mexico.

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Messines


A German supply depot at Messines two months before the Battle of Messines (1917).

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

300 Meters From the Frenchmen


A frontline German trench. If the note on the back is to be believed it is only 300 meters to the opposing French trench.

Friday, February 20, 2015

Friday, January 23, 2015

Baker and March

On the left is Newton Diehl Baker, Jr., Secretary of War from 1916 to 1921. On the right is General Peyton Conway March. This picture was taken between March and June of 1917 when March had the rank of Brigadier General. He was promoted to Major General in August.

Another Army Tent Fire


"This is what is left of Corp Hummels tent after the fire. The X is me"
The tents here had electric lights as well as a stove so there were at least two possible sources of the fire.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Camp Dix, New Jersey


There is a draft registration card for Byron Silence Walton of Philadelphia, PA. His middle name is first written as Silas. That is then crossed out and corrected with Silence. He is also listed as an Infantry Captain in the Officers Reserve Corps after the war.
A faint pencil note at the top of the card states he "Will soon follow this card".

Thursday, October 30, 2014

German POW at Brocton


A German prisoner at the POW Camp in Brocton, England. This was a British Army training facility that was turned into a POW Camp in 1917.

Friday, October 10, 2014

Ein Gruß aus England

These six German soldiers are posing with an unexploded 38mm shell that they have written "Ein Gruß aus England" which translates to "Greetings from England". The faint writing at the bottom places them at Minacourt in 1917.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Scher Studio


The soldier has the collar disc for the US National Army. That would date the photo from the end of 1917 to the beginning of 1918.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Cathedral of St. Quentin

Three German posing before the ruins of the Cathedral of St. Quentin. This would appear to be shortly after the cathedral caught fire in August 1917.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Battery A,1st Section


A group of artillerymen with the Wisconsin National Guard at Camp Douglas.

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Mykulyntsi


A group of Germans resting in Mykulyntsi (Mikulińce) after crossing the Seret River.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Wilhelm Stienbuck


A card from Wilhelm Stienbuck while serving in Roeselare, Belgium. The larger sign indicates he was part of the paying office for the woodworker's union (Holzarbeiter Verband Zahlstelle: Roulers). The smaller one reads Flandern 1917.

Update:
I just scanned this card which was a few cards down the line in the box. It is also to Dora Stienbuck from the same soldier. His first name here is a bit more legible and seems to be Wilhelnye. That does not come up in any search engine as a name. Regardless what his first name may be, Herr Stienbuck did serve at least two years. The earlier card was postmarked in April of 1915 and the other in March of 1917.

In 1915 the 18th Reserve Division was in the Lassigny area until October.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Horse in a Hole

Whatever is happening here took place on March 10th, 1917 if the date on the back is correct.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Feldlazarett 92


The Germans while occupying Cambrai, France used Groupe Scolaire Paul Bert as a Field Hospital. The building is in use today as an elementary school.

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Lichtblinkgerät


A group of signalers in a well tended camp. Someone had taken the time to encircle the fern with a stick path. They are posed with two signal lamps.

Monday, January 20, 2014

French POWs


Some French prisoners in front of their German captors. Curiously there are no weapons to be seen. Perhaps the Germans are patients of the infirmary which they are all standing in front of.  

Thursday, December 19, 2013